This article aims to explore learning and selection effects of productivity change for three classes of firm’s sizes in Brazilian manufacturing and service sectors from 1996 to 2011. The methodology is based on the Price Equation. Our results support the international evidence about the weak...

The main purpose of this article is to contribute to a systematic exposition of some of the equilibrium unemployment theories: the theories of implicit contracts, those of efficiency wage and the negotiation theories. Our hypothesis is that in spite of the fact that these new theoretical...

This paper aims at contributing to the discussion of the theoretical construction of the neo-Schumpeterian approach to technical and economic change. First, the fundamentals of this approach, based on analogies to evolutionary concepts of the biological sciences, are presented. Second, we show...